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Once this blog migrates to the new site<\/a> — which should happen as soon as the UVM blogmasters press the right buttons and set the transition into motion — I plan to start a regular (weekly or so) feature directing readers to interesting developments in ecoculture and geophilosophy. (And sometimes “mediapolitics,” where it converges with the other two.) It won’t be a comprehensive report, but more a briefing in the style of Harper’s Findings<\/a>, with a nod and a wink, and footnotes added. (I love Popdose’s<\/a> attempts to set those findings to music.)<\/p>\n

In that spirit… Over the last little while, Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones sent fourteen postcards from the future<\/a> in which climate change has already taken place, essentially as geophysicists<\/a> were warning. Greenland warmed<\/a> to the idea, setting its own glaciers to break their own<\/a> speed limits. Chinese Daoists opened a temple<\/a> atop Mount Yi, adding to the growing rebirth of the philosophical and religious tradition<\/a> most clearly aimed at keeping those glaciers intact. Nature artists meeting in South Korea<\/a> continued to craft objects of beauty<\/a> in blissful ignorance of the conflagration brewing up around them. Bats beat out<\/a> six other contenders for the title of Animal with the Weirdest Genitalia on Earth. Elsewhere, Sarah Palin was caught fishing<\/a> too close to bears, the state movie<\/a> of both Missouri and North Dakota became Jesus Camp<\/em>, and the state word<\/a> of Nevada became “debauchery.” Scientists found that<\/a> dark matter pulls things together and dark energy pushes them apart. Between the pushing and the pulling they expect we’ll be able to catch our breath for a while longer.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to Tim<\/a> for the postcards.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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